Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement
- ID
- 34152
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 11 Oct 2026, 8:46 AM
- Fetched
- 11 Oct 2026, 8:19 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://wallhop.io/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 5.5
- Created
- 11 Oct 2026, 8:20 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_ml_learnersai_agent_userssaas_founders
What happened
WallHop is a free, no-signup paywall-bypass tool launched on Hacker News as a replacement for 12ft.io, which the post says is gone. It offers URL-prefix hopping, an iPhone Shortcut via the Share button, a bookmarklet, and /raw/ and /api/ endpoints, with a note that paywalls pay for journalism and daily-read sites should be subscribed to. The HN thread has 251 points and 104 comments, showing strong attention.
Why it matters
If you occasionally need to read a one-off paywalled article for research or to feed text into a tool, WallHop gives a no-signup shortcut and simple endpoints, but it is a legal/ethical gray area and likely fragile if publishers block it. Don't wire it into a production RAG pipeline or client deliverable without fallbacks or licensed sources; use it as an ad-hoc convenience at most.
Discussion angle
Should builders use unofficial paywall-bypass endpoints in AI/RAG workflows, or does that cross a line—and what fallback do you keep when a source blocks the request?